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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LinkedIn Recruiter

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALinkedIn Recruiter is a hiring platform for talent professionals that helps find, connect with, and manage the people you want to hire.N/A

    Monster

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AMonster in Weston offers their job board for finding the right candidates, boasting resume analysis and role fit scoring, available at Monster.com.N/A
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    LinkedIn RecruiterMonster
    Editions & Modules
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    LinkedIn RecruiterMonster
    Considered Both Products
    LinkedIn
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    LinkedIn Recruiter provides best features as compared to competitors. Pool of candidates is more as compared to others. Recommendation features help gauge genuine candidates.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    LinkedIn is one part community, and one part sourcing tool. Other tools are are more strictly a resume database of job seekers. LinkedIn Recruiter allows us to reach candidates not necessarily looking for a job which is valuable.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    LinkedIn Recruiter provides a large pool of candidates across all these job boards and a vast number of filters that you can use to find specific talent. Features like Inmails do wonders in connecting with candidates. With the help of LinkedIn Recruiter, we are able to identify …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    it is major used portal where we can connect with candidate directly without any personal touch. the professional skill, job role and past experience of the candidate is very genuine.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    LinkedIn is the #1 source of profiles. It has the most, and a lot of other sourcing sites are based around the frameworks of LinkedIn, or bring you directly to their profiles.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    LinkedIn Recruiter provides a very actualized database of candidates, always providing information about their current status on Linkedin. You can source, recruit, communicate with candidates, and document the interactions in this platform, which makes it easier.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
    It's not even close, Recruiter is the far superior product.
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    Monster
    Chose Monster
    Monster.com is very excellent for professionals who are in need of candidate database with effective cost. The customer service is very good in term of explaining new features and accepting user reviews. Even though it is cost effective it doesn't fail to meet the user needs. I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Monster
    It is the least effective tool we use. It's steadily declined in relevance in the marketplace which means that not only do less candidates know about Monster, but also fewer employers known about the platform. I think Indeed has largely taken over Monster's position in the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Monster
    I think Monster.com fills a different niche. SeekOut/LinkedIn are more about finding candidates from the overall pool of millions of profiles and resumes. Monster.com shows you immediately who is looking, who is applying, etc. Monster.com also has the salary tools, which I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Monster
    Attracts candidates. Matches candidates to positions. Weeds out unqualified candidates. Easy to use.Advertising for open positions. Doesn't force you to change your password every other month or so. Very logical layout of the website. The search strings are very accurate. If …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
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    87%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    24 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    LinkedIn RecruiterMonster
    Recruitment Marketing
    Comparison of Recruitment Marketing features of LinkedIn Recruiter and Monster.com
    Feature
    LinkedIn Recruiter
    -
    Ratings
    Monster.com
    7.1
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Passive Recruitment Advertising00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Active Recruitment Advertising00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Employer Branding Tools00 Ratings6.94 Ratings
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    LinkedIn RecruiterMonster
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    LinkedIn Jobs
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Glassdoor
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Avature CRM
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Snagajob
    Score6.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LinkedIn RecruiterMonster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    7.2
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LinkedIn RecruiterMonster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn Recruiter is better suited in terms of the filters it provides to search for a pool of candidates. Features like past and current companies, past universities, or years of experience, AI Search, and AI message drafting do wonders in terms of recruitment. But some more filters can be added, which will help further in recruitment. For example, Boolean search in job titles, targeting specific keywords in recent experience, etc.
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    Monster
    Monster.com has a very vast database, and there is always the possibility of getting the profile for a particular region or for a specific skill set. It is easier to fetch the profile from mid to senior-level roles and use search all over the world, which means global search is less appropriate because it is costly for a third party or a small company.
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    Pros
    LinkedIn
    • The scheduler is my most favorite part of Recruiter. Super easy and organized to use.
    • It also can integrate with my applicant tracking system when and if I hire from LinkedIn Recruiter.
    • The fact that you can see an applicants full profile gives more information than just a resume when selecting candidates to interview.
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    Monster
    • Monster.com is the best to find the talented resources. For an instance a company is looking for a software engineer, Monster.com can access resumes qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
    • Monster.com has the best filter options that help employers to fetch the best resources.
    • Monster.com excels in offering user-friendly recruitment platform that fulfill to the needs of employers in attracting, screening, and hiring top talent.
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    Cons
    LinkedIn
    • For some reason, whenever I click "View in Recruiter" it takes me to the project summary screen instead of that candidate's profile in Recruiter
    • It would be nice if candidates got automatically moved to the appropriate stage when an action is taken (ie "Contacted" after sending them a message)
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    Monster
    • It would be nice if Monster could autofill resumes from applicants from information they provide once.
    • Applicants complain about having to fill in all of the fields for their applications - even though they have submitted their resumes.
    • As an applicant, it would be nice to have greater transparency and updates for when a submitted application is shared, opened, or reviewed. Otherwise there can be a sense of being "ghosted" after having applied and not hearing back.
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    Usability
    LinkedIn
    This portals helps to source the profile directly from the LinkedIn where I don't need to check the resume and LinkedIn separately every time. LinkedIn Recruiter is the best platform for posting the job effortlessly. It requires only few details and we can get response quicker.
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    Monster
    With the use of Monster.com I can get my job done with the turn around time. The user interface is very good to use and anyone can use it at the first time. It has saved search features which is very useful for tracking. Mainly, it is useful for both job seekers as well as for the recruiters.
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    Support Rating
    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    Monster
    There are separate helplines for job seekers and employers. The response time is less compared to other customer support organizations that are out there. There are multiple offices in multiple locations so that it will improve the connectivity thereby helping the users in a better way possible. It provides a high standard of service and they also look into feedback seriously and work on it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LinkedIn
    SeekOut has a diversity filter, which I like. They also list some candidates that are not on LinkedIn, but ultimately SeekOut routes me to LinkedIn. So technically SeekOut allows me to screen for filters that LinkedIn does not, but I actually end up using LinkedIn Recruiter to manage and communicate with the candidates.
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    Monster
    I selected Monster.com for the complete package and very useful database. Find monster.com very easy to use, track the activity of the recruiter as well as of the candidate. Checking inventory remaining is very easy to find in Monster.com. The is the best database to get the qualified candidates in short period.
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    Return on Investment
    LinkedIn
    • It's a must have for reaching passive candidates.
    • Love being able to identify candidates we may need in the future and saving them in a project.
    • It's difficult to cut through the noise using Inmails since everyone is using the tool.
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    Monster
    • Since we are able to close positions using Monster the reliability and trust factor has gone up with the clients that we deliver to.
    • The hiring for vacancies has increased substantially and this is a good thing for the business as a whole.
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